In this class, students will acquire hands-on experience in diverse aspects of the research process in any field of Biology, from familiarizing themselves with a research topic, generating interesting questions, designing experiments, acquiring technical skills, collecting and analyzing data, to writing and/or presenting their results. To inquire about enrollment, students should fill out the application survey available on the departmental website or on my.mtholyoke.

This course presents poverty as a challenge to education with management as a common element of solutions to address poverty. The course is designed to explore the development, persistence, and broad range of impacts of poverty across multiple disciplines. The contents cover poverty research and practices, management, criminal justice, psychology, sociology, marketing, economics, education, and families, among others. Students will use this multidisciplinary perspective to develop a transdisciplinary research proposal to develop solutions to mitigate and eliminate the challenges of poverty.

This course aims to develop analytical, decision-making and communication skills as related to researching and developing interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary solutions to big problems (aka Wicked Problems). The class exposes or ?bursts the bubble? of major issues facing the global economy, cultures, and communities and the global population. The class will look primarily at the UN Sustainable Development Goals as well as other topics.

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